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Breaking: Bali's Mount Agung Erupts and Spews Lava

-Bali's Mount Agung volcano
erupted on Friday, spreading ash across the Indonesian island and forcing
flights in and out of the airport to be cancelled. The eruption happened on
Friday night and lasted four minutes and 30 seconds, lava was seen spurting out
of the crater and down the slope for three kilometres.

The Directorate General of
Air Transportation said four flights to Bali were diverted and five flights out
of the popular tourist destination were canceled because of volcanic ash. Volcanic
ash rained and affected villages in the nearby regions of Karangasem and
Bangli, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

No immediate evacuation was
called as the villages are well within the safe zone, a spokesperson for the
National Disaster Mitigation Agency told the publication. Indonesia's
Center of Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation (PVMBG) said in a
repor t:

“The ash column could not be
observed. Thundering sounds from the eruption were heard adequately strong from
the monitoring post.”

Agung became active again in
2017 after more than a half century of slumber following a major eruption in
1963. This is the third time the volcano has erupted this month, with the
other two incidents happening on May 12 and May 18.

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